this is bbc world news, the headlines: president trump has nominated brett kavanaugh to fill a crucial vacancy on the us supreme court. judge kavanaugh is known as a conservative justice who worked as a white house aide under president george w bush and also assisted with the impeachment investigation into president bill clinton. rescuers in thailand are preparing for what they hope will be a third and final day of the operation to free the remaining four footballers and their coach trapped in a cave. so far eight boys have been brought to safety. they are now in isolation in hospital. the british prime minister theresa may appears to have weathered an immediate challenge to her leadership. during a turbulent 2a hours, two of her senior ministers — both supporters of brexit — resigned over her plans to keep close trade ties with the european union after britain leaves the bloc. now on bbc news: monday in parliament. hello and welcome to

monday in parliament. the main news from westminster: two of her cabinet ministers have resigned but theresa may insists her brexit plant offers a best way. know what this is the brexit that it's in our national interest. it is the president will deliver on the democratic decision of the people. it is the right to deal for britain and i commend the statement to the house. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn sadie she presides over a crisis over government. two secretaries of state have and still we are no clear on what the future relationship with our nearest neighbours and biggest partners will look like. workers and businesses deserve better than this. also on the programme, as police investigate the death

of a woman after exposure to novichok, the home cemetery updates and peas on russian involvement. we can see with this incident, we must be led by the evidence and see what the facts are, as the police continue with their investigation, but frankly it is hard to see that there is no other plausible explanation. after a lock—out at that prime minister plus i read residents on friday. she said she secured a plan for brazil. —— brexit. in an entity with the bbc, she declared that collective responsibility within the cabinet had returned and the government moving forward together. but the consensus is soon began to unravel. david davis resigned as brexit secretary late on sunday night. saying he could not support the proposals after all. 15 hours later, borisjohnson

stepped down as foreign secretary. saying the plan on offer would deliver a semi brexit. his resignation was announced half an hour before theresa may was due to make a commons statement on her brexit strategy. so with two cabinet ministers gone when mrs may got up to speak the commons, she faced some prolonged cheering from opposition mps. she paid tribute to her departing cabinet ministers. we do not agree with the direction but i want to recognise the work for the work he did did establish a new department. and steer through some

of the most important legislation for generations. and similarly to recognise the passion of the former foreign secretary demonstrated in promoting... in promoting... order, order! i want to hear about these important matters. and i think the house showed. the prime minister. she said the friction free movement of goods was the only way it is a proposal that would take back control our borders, oui’ money and oui’. but do so in a way that protects jobs, allows us to strike new trade deals through an integrated trading policy, and keys our people safe and our union together stoplight

mrs may said that at the heart of the plan was a free—trade area. which would avoid customs and regulatory checks the border. she said the friction free movement of goods was the only way to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland and also between northern ireland and great britain. it was also she said the only way to protect the supply chains on which millions ofjobs depended. what we are proposing is challenging for the eu. it requires them... yes. order! it requires them to think again, to look beyond the positions they have taken so far and a brand—new and fair balance of rights and obligations. this is the brexit than this in our national interests. it is the brexit that will deliver on the democratic decision of the british people. it is the right raise a deal for britain and i commend the statement to the house. there are now only a few months left

until these negotiations are supposed to conclude. we have a crisis in government, two secretaries of state have resigned and still we are no clearer on what the future relationship with our nearest neighbours and biggest partners will look like. workers and businesses deserve better than this! on friday, mr speaker, the prime minister was so proud of her brexit deal she wrote to her mps to declare collective cabinet responsibility is now fully restored. how is that going for you? while the... while the environment secretary added his own words and said "one of the things about this compromise is that it unites the cabinet". the chequers compromise, the chequers compromise took two years to reach and just two

days to unravel. and he joked about the timing of the resignations. and i want to be fair to the former brexit secretary and the former foreign secretary. i think they would have resigned on the spot on friday. but they were faced with a very long walk ,no phone, and due to government cuts, no bus service either. as for the proposals themselves... this is not a comprehensive plan forjobs in britain that the people of this country deserve. these proposals stopped well short of a comprehensive customs union, something trade unions and manufacturers have been demanding. the commons chamber was packed for mrs may's statement but this bigger reassured mps that everyone

would get their chance. the brexit plan got a mixed reception from one conservative, calling it a betrayal. but we start with the snp leader at westminster who said that it amounted to cherry picking. it is, i believe, a majority of the house for staying in a single market and the customs union. will the prime minister work with the rest of us to make sure that we can deliver on staying in the customs union and the single market, to deliver what is in the best interests of all our people? will she stop kowtowing to hard brexiteers who are prepared to accept economic self harm and the loss ofjobs. will she recognise that she now has to take on her extreme brexiteers? the key question which the right honourable gentleman asked and he asked it twice was would i work with people across this house to stay in the single market and the customs union? the answer is an absolute, unequivocal no. we are leaving the single market and we are leaving the customs union. hilary benn then welcomed

a new brexit secretary. so, i would echo the call she has just heard to say that now she has the government has indicated that the facilitated customs arrangement even assuming that the eu were to agree to it, a question about which they must be a great deal of doubt, would only be fully operational by the time of the next general election in 2022. with the premise are therefore not confirmed to the house ——— will the prime minister that in light of that, the current transitional arrangement that expires in 2020 is inevitably going to have to be changed? no. delivering a result would always involve trade—offs. so i want to support the prime minister achieved

on friday which putsjobs at the heart of a president. that is in the national interest. and i think the prime minister has the vast majority of the country behind her in delivering and brexit in the national interest. this week, the activists were so disappointed about what happened at chequers. they were betrayed, they said they were betrayed. and they asked why, they asked why do we go out each and every saturday to support the conservative party, gets mps elected and serve, for the first time in over ten years, that group refused to go outand campaign. what would the prime minister say to them? can i say to my honourable friend first of all, that i am very sorry that his activists did not help

with the campaign. i would hope they would campaign for the excellent member of parliament and be willing support on the doorsteps. this is not a betrayal. you're watching monday in parliament with me, kristiina cooper. theresa may began her brexit save face by offering their condolences to the families of the victim who died of novichok exposure. she said that the police services were hoping to work in the full facts. dawn and her partner charlie rowley were taken to hospital over a week ago. police believe they may have handled the substance and officers are continuing to search for the contaminated container. a police officer taken to hospital as a precaution has been released.

in march, expressions by sergei skripal and his daughter yulia, were both treated the same hospital after being poisoned with novichok. the home secretary came to the comments to update mps. this is now a murder investigation which is being led by about 100 detectives from counterterrorism police command alongside officers from wiltshire police and other constabulary. we know that the tests conducted at porton down have shown that both individuals were exposed to the same of type of novichok used to poison sergei skripal and his daughter yulia in march. a number of sites the pair visited have been cordoned off as a precaution. last week the chief medical officer for england said that the risks to the wider public remains low. but the people in the local area should not pick up any strange items, such as needles, syringes or unusual containers, given that the source of the contamination has not yet been found. this advice remains unchanged. the most important thing

going forward, after this very serious security incident is that we limit speculation, we limit guesswork and we have the most thorough investigation, which leads where the evidence takes it. the sad death of dawn sturgess deserves no less. last thursday, the home secretary was unable to confirm whether the novichok used in this instance can be attributed to the same batch as was used on the attack on the skripals. can he confirm today whether or not it is going to be possible to establish that from testing and, if so, when that information might be available? the scientists have not been able to identify or determine if it is the same batch, so it may well be, but at this point, that is not known and that is partly because the sample that the scientists have at this

point at porton down, from this incident, has come from blood samples from the two individuals who have been contaminated and it is not enough of a strength of sample, so to speak, to match it in terms of batch. 0ne conservative wanted to know... does he have the necessary resources, because he literally is looking for a needle in a haystack and we have seen how this second contamination occurred some distance away from the first, that we are talking about a very large area to cover. when this second incident came about, wiltshire police requested support from military police as well to help guard some of the sites and that military police support was on the ground within 48 hours. is it still the government's working assumption that the only credible explanation of what happened earlier on this year was that the russian state were directly involved in ordering the poisoning of sergei skripal and yulia and if that is the case, then the most likely option is still today and most likely explanation, is that the russians

have been so careless about the way in which novichok has been used in the united kingdom, that murder still lies at the door of the kremlin? it is still absolutely the government view that there is no other plausible explanation and the kremlin were responsible for the attack on yulia and sergei skripal and whilst in this incident, we must be led by the evidence and see what the facts are as the police continue with their investigation, but frankly, it is hard to see that there is another plausible explanation. has the home secretary applied pressure to his counterparts in the russian state, to see if they would be forthcoming with intelligence with information about the agent and, more importantly, its possible cure? the only thing forthcoming from the russians is a disinformation campaign. reflecting on the attack on the skripals, a senior

conservative raised concerns about the level of protection for russian defectors. such as one person who has been sentenced to death in absentia and another, are suitably having their security arrangements reviewed and any protection, which they require afforded to them. sajid javid said there were lessons to be learned and part of that was making sure that all people in britain had the level of protection they needed. now, mps are examining the government's handling of the new combined benefit, universal credit, following a critical report from a spending watchdog. they heard from leading charities about the impact of universal credit, including the effect of making payments to claimants in arrears. 70% of respondents who had gone on to universal credit had got into debt in the initial waiting period, whilst they were waiting for the initial universal credit payment.

and our research also showed us that that debt continued on, so even where advanced payment could be made, what our respondents were telling us was that, it was too costly to repay going over a period of time, so itjust pushed the ball slightly further down the field and in actual fact, our research was showing that people often had to borrow from friends and families, to see out the initial waiting period. their payment came in and that was used just to pay back friends and family. therefore, the debt increased and went on further. the people that we are talking to are experiencing considerable hardship and considerable deterioration in their mental health, i would say. they struggle with the process and i will explain a little bit of what i mean by that, they end up, broadly they end up sort of tangled in the process and unable to sort of make their way out of it. the committee heard from senior

civil servants at the department for work and pensions. the tory mp put the evidence of the food banks to them. why is it that you think the food bank footfall is increasing in areas where there is a full roll—out of universal credit? i don't know. that is a really good question and it is a good challenge from the report and from conversations with the trussell trust and conversations we are having to try and understand the complexity of what goes on when someone comes. a lot of them are referred by your own staff. they are. in my own area, i went to visit a day after the trussell trust had been, to say please don'tjust refer me, from the dwp and the numbers had gone down. they said it was quiet because they had just asked the dwp to stop referring people. so, most of the referrals are at that point from the dwp, don't you think that sounds like a system that is not really delivering, if your own staff are not admitting that food banks are an essential part of propping someone up? well, look, iwould much rather

we were in a situation where people did not need to go to food banks. that is what i am saying. an area without universal credit. that is not relevant there. i think that kind of makes the point, doesn't it, that it is a very complex situation and of course. do you think it is acceptable that a government, in the department that is supposed to be providing social security to people, to make sure that they do not fall, is actually... i mean, i don't blame front line staff, but i guess it is a safety net in a local area. do you think it is a sign that the system is not quite delivering right, if they have to refer people to food banks? the food banks themselves have lobbied government for a long time for the department for work and pensions to assign those people to food banks and i think it was in 2011 or 2012, the government agreed to assign those people to food banks. mr schofield, has it ever occurred to you, just thinking about the demeanour and the way you are giving evidence today, if a little humility

and a willingness to listen might go a long way towards rebuilding some rust in this process? a long way towards rebuilding some trust in this process? mr schofield. no. thank you. rewind. yes. that's your answer. you don't often give my constituents a chance to rewind. when i was here before, i'd talked about... yes, you did, i was about to quote them to you. i think the report sets out a number of ways in which the department has been listening and the approach that we are taking has been more along those lines more recently. the defence secretary says he is setting up a dedicated team in his department to consider whetherformer members of the armed forces should be exempt from being prosecuted for alleged offences committed during the troubles in northern ireland. gavin williamson told the commons

that he understood concerns that former military personnel were not receiving the legal protection they deserved. i have just suggested that we need to look at the situation regarding all veterans, veterans from all campaigns would have a statute of limitations. i thank my right honourable friend for raising this and he is right to say that it should be not looking at this in isolation but looking at it right across the piste and that is why we have set up this dedicated team, but it is very important to look at the evidence and the information that is also collected by the select committee. i agree that we need to make sure our armed forces personnel are protected from vexatious and ludicrous legal claims from the past but we also need to make sure that we can pursue international war crimes and criminals all around the world and not to renege on those promises? the honourable gentleman makes a very important point, which is that we have the highest of standards and actually our

ability to pursue people right around the world who have done some very bad things is absolutely the right stance to happen we will continue to do that. can he confirmed that the position is that the sentencing act means that soldiers and terrorists alike cannot be sentenced to more than two years in jail of which there will probably serve only half and in those circumstances is it not right that we should move to a statute of limitations so that we do not have an unfair imbalance where some are not prosecuted and others are? yes, he is correct in his analysis of the current situation and what we are really keen to do is to find a long—term solution to help all service personnel from conflicts notjust in terms of northern ireland, but also in terms of afghanistan and iraq and making sure that the vexatious

claims are eliminated. thank you, mr speaker. after the good friday agreement, a political decision gave letters of comfort to terrorists. can't we give, by political decision, a letter of comfort to our soldiers? the reason we are assessing this dedicated team is to look at all the different options and that is why it is so important to work with the select committee to try and find the solutions to this problem that has been going on for too long. gavin williamson. we end where we started, on the main news of the day. theresa may's new brexit plan and the resignations of two cabinet ministers. in the house of lords, news of borisjohnson‘s resignation came through at a timely moment, the brexit minister who had just seen his boss, david davis and a junior minister stephen baker resigned from the brexit apartment, was answering questions about brexit. as the total tory pantomime has now

become just too complicated, why not consider the other option of simply staying in the most effective and impressive international club of sovereign member states working together for peace and prosperity? the noble lord obviously forgot that we had a referendum on the subject and people voted to leave. my lords, the noble lord has confirmed for us that actually what he meant in his first response was that the chequers agreement commits the government, of which he remains a part of, to see a soft brexit. we now know that a soft brexit involves a common eu — uk rule book, his former secretary of state and minister of state have resigned, saying that this approach makes any reclamation of sovereignty purely superficial. he has a point. can he say why he doesn't agree with his former boss? well, i mean, the former secretary of state can speak for himself, but i am focused on helping to deliver the brexit

that the country voted for, one that leaves the single market, one that leaves the customs union, one that leaves the common agricultural policy and the common fisheries policy and one that brings back control to this parliament and this country. is my noble friend aware that throughout the conservative party there will be many, many people who will be delighted that he is staying, supporting the prime minister in trying to achieve a sensible settlement? laughter. i thought there was going to be a but there, but obviously not! i have to say, i thank the noble lord, my noble friend for his kind remarks. i was somewhat surprised to wake up this morning to find that lord adonis had apparently announced my resignation on twitter overnight, which perhaps was wishful thinking on his part. lord stevenson broke the news that boris johnson had resigned. would he like to reframe his

original answer to me given the news that the foreign secretary has just resigned ? i am obviously sorry to hear that the foreign secretary has resigned. if what the noble lord says is correct, he has been a towering figure in government. but, what i said earlier still remains the policy of the government. lord callaghan. braving question time after two of his colleagues resigned from the brexit department. that is it from monday in parliament. we will be here for the rest of the week to keep you updated. from me, kristiina cooper, goodbye. hello there. it's been a remarkable run of hot weather really. temperatures over the last five days

somewhere in the uk have pushed over the 30 degrees celsius mark, and yesterday it was the turn of kew in west london to push above the 30—degree mark. 31 degrees celsius the top temperature yesterday. many areas did see some decent spells of sunshine. this was the scene in norfolk during monday, but further north—eastwards, in whitby, in that area, we had some thicker cloud and gary spotted a few spots of rain falling from the cloud. this, a cold front pushing through, and later in the day, the same weather watcher, gary, spotted some brighter weather following the cold front through. now, the satellite picture shows extensive cloud over northern and eastern parts of the country. that cold front continues to work its way southwards and significantly, it's going to be bringing fresher air. so the humidity will be dropping and as that happens, the temperatures will drop further as well. so it's going to be fresher, more comfortable night's sleep ahead. temperatures between around about 10 and 15 celsius for the early risers tuesday morning. a lot of dry weather out and about as well. this is the pressure chart

for tuesday, high pressure still with us but we do have that weak cold front moving into the heart of southern england. further north in scotland, a weak warm front will bring some thickening cloud and the prospect of seeing a few spots of rain. nothing to help the gardens mind you. for most areas, it's just going to be a dry day. a lot of cloud to start off with but that cloud will thin and break up with time, some spells of sunshine breaking through as we go through the afternoon. now, temperature—wise, 0k, it's not going to be not as hot, we probably won't see temperatures into the low 30s, but it's still going to be pleasant out and about when the sun comes through. 2a celsius in london. close to normal for the time of year. 21 in edinburgh. if we see some decent sunshine across the south—west, we could see temperatures in the mid—to—high 20s in the warmest spots here. now, there could be some changes afoot on wednesday. a weather front threatens the north—west of the uk, bringing the prospect of some rain. uncertain how much and where that rain will be falling but something the gardeners will be

looking out for. away from the north—west corner, though, it's the same old story, a lot of dry weather with some bright or sunny spells, and again, temperatures widely in the low—to—mid—20s, so pleasant weather really weather for many of us. towards the end of the week, we're going to keep the dry theme going with further sunshine and what you'll notice is the temperatures tending to build. we should see highs in london pushing back into the upper 20s as we head through saturday and sunday. that's your latest weather, bye for now. hello and welcome to monday in parliament. the main news from westminster. two of her cabinet ministers have resigned but theresa may welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers

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